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thesk8man   09-14-2008 at 02:40:22 AM

Hi

I woud like to

A) make a copy of my C: drive
B) copy that image over to usb thumb drive
C) make that usb drive bootable

thanks in advance.

p.s: its for my laptop.

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dmkmarlonsparda13   09-14-2008 at 06:32:04 AM
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is the laptop able to boot from usb devices?

and ur going to need a big flash drive to do that.

also a good software to use to make back ups is

PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 if u dont want to use the windows one which most people dont.


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Nils   09-14-2008 at 11:43:39 AM
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I would use Snapshot Disk Imaging

Afterwards get your USB drive ready with an empty NTFS primary active partition on it with the same size as your c partition on the laptop and just restore the image to the usb drive.

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thesk8man   09-14-2008 at 11:54:03 PM
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Yes it can boot up from usb.

I have used Acronis True Image Home 11.0 to make a backup of my c:

now i also have a usb drive big enough.

after restoring the image to the usb drive how do i make it active ?

is their any other thing i need to do? thanks

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Nils   09-15-2008 at 09:10:51 PM
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Norton Partition Magic 8.0

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